I tend to buy cheese when it is reduced in price (Those nice yellow stickers) but hey I'm just a peasant. It does feel like you're getting a bargain but then again I was forced to eat a whole camembert in 2 days recently so it's probably not a good idea.
From that article I can see that US 'casserole' = UK 'bake' - I.e. something you cook in the oven.
Reading the first few paragraphs I am especially intrigued by the idea of toppings!!:
...topped with crushed potato chips
...a crushed Ritz cracker topping
Oh wow!!!From cornflakes cereal to trendy Japanese panko crumbs, the topping gives the casserole the necessary crunch
Last edited by justjoe86; 14-05-2013 at 10:22 AM.
When I first married, my hubby offered to cook one night. He called it his 'Special Spaghetti with Sauce'
He proceeded to mix one can of Campbell's tomato soup and one can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup in a pan and heat them up (undiluted). He then plonked a batch of spaghetti into boiling water. Back to his 'sauce' he added some tabasco sauce and black pepper. Noodles were done so he turned off the gas. We stood in the kitchen waiting while the sauce simmered and the spaghetti continued to cook in the hot water.
I was then served with the very overdone spaghetti, topped with two cans of undiluted soup flavoured with tabasco sauce. He then produced a green tube of powdered cheese. I renamed it his 'Special Two-Soup Sauce Spaghetti with Sawdust on the side'.
Needless to say I never had that dish again and have since shown him how to cook spaghetti sauce from scratch to be served with al dente pasta, topped with freshly grated pecorino romano. He's never looked back!
All you never needed to know about casserole...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casserole
In danger of this turning into a cooking thread I found that if you use garlic, onion, minced beef, tinned tomatoes, lea and perrins, a bit of red wine, tomato puree, a spoonful of pesto (easier to find than basil), oregano, simmer it until quite thick, add some salt & pepper you get a pretty nice bolognaise sauce. Tabasco to taste. Oh and top with mature cheddar/ parmesan. I cooked it for my wife who previously preffered dolmio and we never buy dolmio anymore. Result!
From the first paragraph:
Step by step directions for butchering a language.In British English, this type of dish is frequently also called a bake, coinciding with the cooking technique used to cook casseroles.
Step 1: Take a word of your choice. In this example we use 'casserole'
Step 2: Change it to mean something else. If possible just over generalise or dilute the meaning. Change spelling if you feel it has too many letters.
Step 3: Mention the 'British English' meaning as dismissively as possible, as if it is some kind of distant dialect.
Saying that, fair play - at least it's not called a cazzerole.
Indeed. There's no way that lasagne (to use an example from that wiki page) is a type of casserole in English.